Four Arrest Warrants Issued against ISIL Affiliates
Military Examining Magistrate Fadi Sawan interrogated on Monday three suspects on charges of belonging to a terrorist Qaida-Linked organization and of planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Lebanon.
Sawan also issued an arrest warrant against the three suspects and one in absentia against Omar al-Satem, who is still in Syria.
The three allegedly belong to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
They were identified as Abdul Majid Hmeidan, Mohammed Ali and Alaa al-Mohammed.
The al-Qaida-affiliated ISIL claimed credit in January for the deadly bombing in the Beirut southern suburb of Haret Hreik.
Four people died and another 77 were wounded by a suicide car bomb in Haret Hreik.
Wadi Khaled resident Qutaiba Mohammed al-Satem has been confirmed to be the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Haret Hreik, according to DNA testing, state-run National News Agency reported.
Earlier, reports said the identity paper of a 20-year-old Lebanese University student named Qutaiba al-Satem was found near the bombing site in Haret Hreik district.
According to the state-run National News Agency, the three detainees have recently headed to Yabrud – Rima Farms and then to Dankuk in Syria where they met with the Emir of the ISIL, who is known as Abou al-Kheir.
The three have reportedly been taught about takfiris, suicide attacks and reasons to consider Shiites, Druze, Christians, Alawites, the Lebanese army, al-Nusra Front and the Free Syrian army as takfiris.
“They were arrested by the army at the Bekaa's al-Labweh checkpoint,” NNA added.
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